This Week at Persuasion

Join our online happy hour! Plus, Alex Thompson on The Good Fight.

People in period costume pose for a photograph at the Jane Austen Regency Country Fair on the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth on July 6, 2025 in Steventon, Hampshire. (Footage by Carl Court/Getty Images.)

• Our next London pub meet will be on Friday, July 25, at 6:30pm at Ye Olde Mitre in Holborn. Please email me at london@persuasion.community if …